Saturday, March 5, 2011

BAFTA Award-Winning Films
(1947-2010) (years shown are the year of film's release; the awards are held in the next calendar year) 1947 Best FilmThe Best Years of Our LivesCountry: U.S. Director William Wyler 1947 Best British Film Odd Man Out Country: U.K. Director Carol Reed 1948 Best FilmHamletCountry: U.K. Director Laurence Olivier 1948 Best British Film The Fallen Idol Country: U.K. Director Carol Reed 1949 Best Film The Bicycle Thief Country: Italy Director Vittorio De Sica 1949 Best British Film The Third Man Country: U.K. Director Carol Reed

1950 Best FilmAll About EveCountry: U.S. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950 Best British Film The Blue Lamp Country: U.K. Director Basil Dearden 1951 Best Film La Ronde Country: France Director Max Ophüls 1951 Best British Film The Lavender Hill Mob Country: U.K. Director Charles Crichton 1952 Best Film and Best British Film The Sound Barrier Country: U.K. Director David Lean 1953 Best Film Forbidden Games Country: France Director René Clément 1953 Best British Film Genevieve Country: U.K. Director Henry Cornelius 1954 Best Film Wages of Fear Country: France Director Henri-Georges Clouzot 1954 Best British Film Hobson’s Choice Country: U.K. Director David Lean

1955 Best Film and Best British Film Richard III Country: U.K. Director Laurence Olivier 1956 Best Film Gervaise Country: France Director René Clément 1956 Best British Film Reach for the Sky Country: U.K. Director Lewis Gilbert 1957 Best Film and Best British FilmThe Bridge on the River KwaiCountry: U.K. Director David Lean 1958 Best Film and Best British Film Room at the Top Country: U.K. Director Jack Clayton 1959 Best FilmBen HurCountry: U.S. Director William Wyler 1959 Best British Film Sapphire Country: U.K. Director Basil Dearden

1960 Best FilmThe ApartmentCountry: U.S. Director Billy Wilder 1960 Best British Film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Country: U.K. Director Karel Reisz 1961 Best Film Ballad of a Soldier Country: U.S.S.R. Director Grigori Chukrai 1961 Best British Film A Taste of Honey Country: U.K. Director Tony Richardson 1962 Best Film and Best British FilmLawrence of ArabiaCountry: U.K. Director David Lean 1963 Best Film and Best British FilmTom JonesCountry: U.K. Director Tony Richardson 1964 Best Film and Best British Film Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Country: U.K. Director Stanley Kubrick 1965 Best FilmMy FairLadyCountry: U.S. Director George Cukor 1965 Best British Film The Ipcress File Country: U.K. Director Sidney J. Furie 1966 Best Film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Country: U.S. Director Mike Nichols 1966 Best British Film The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Country: U.K. Director Martin Ritt 1967 Best Film and Best British FilmA Man for All SeasonsCountry: U.K. Director Fred Zinnemann 1968 Best Film The Graduate Country: U.S. Director Mike Nichols 1969 Best FilmMidnight CowboyCountry: U.S. Director John Schlesinger

1970 Best Film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Country: U.S. Director George Roy Hill 1971 Best Film Sunday Bloody Sunday Country: U.K. Director John Schlesinger 1972 Best Film Cabaret Country: U.S. Director Bob Fosse 1973 Best Film Day for Night Country: France Director François Truffaut 1974 Best Film Lacombe, Lucien Country: U.S. Director Louis Malle

1975 Best Film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Country: U.S. Director Martin Scorsese 1976 Best FilmOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestCountry: U.S. Director Milos Forman 1977 Best FilmAnnie HallCountry: U.S. Director Woody Allen 1978 Best Film Julia Country: U.S. Director Fred Zinnemann 1979 Best Film Manhattan Country: U.S. Director Woody Allen

1995 Best Film Sense and Sensibility Country: U.S. Director Ang Lee 1995 Best Foreign-Language Film Il Postino Country: Italy Director Michael Radford 1995 Best British Film The Madness of King George Country: U.K. Director Nicholas Hytner 1996 Best FilmThe English PatientCountry: U.K. Director Anthony Minghella 1996 Best Foreign-Language Film Ridicule Country: France Director Patrice Leconte 1996 Best British Film Secrets and Lies Country: U.K. Director Mike Leigh 1997 Best Film The Full Monty Country: U.K. Director Peter Cattaneo 1997 Best Foreign-Language Film L'Appartement Country: Italy Director Gilles Mimouni 1997 Best British Film Nil by Mouth Country: U.K./U.S. Director Gary Oldman 1998 Best FilmShakespeare in LoveCountry: U.S. Director John Madden 1998 Best Foreign-Language Film Central Station Country: Brazil Director Walter Salles 1998 Best British Film Elizabeth Country: U.K. Director Shekhar Kapur 1999 Best FilmAmerican BeautyCountry: U.S. Director Sam Mendes 1999 Best Foreign-Language Film All About My Mother Country: Spain Director Pedro Almodóvar 1999 Best British Film East is East Country: U.S. Director Damien O'Donnell

2000 Best FilmGladiator Country: U.S. Director Ridley Scott 2000 Best Foreign-Language Film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Country: China Director Ang Lee 2000 Best British Film Billy Elliott Country: U.K. Director Stephen Daldry 2001 Best Film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Country: U.S. Director Peter Jackson 2001 Best Foreign-Language Film Amores Perros Country: Mexico Director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu 2001 Best British Film Gosford Park Country: U.K. Director Robert Altman 2002 Best Film The Pianist Country: U.S./U.K./France/Poland/Germany Director Roman Polanski 2002 Best Foreign-Language Film Talk to Her Country: Spain Director Pedro Almodóvar 2002 Best British Film The Warrior Country: U.K. Director Asif Kapadias 2003 Best FilmThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingCountry: U.S. Director Peter Jackson 2003 Best Foreign-Language Film In This World Country: U.K. Director Michael Winterbottom 2003 Best British Film Touching the Void Country: U.K. Director Kevin Macdonald 2004 Best Film The Aviator Country: U.S. Director Martin Scorsese 2004 Best Foreign-Language Film The Motorcycle Diaries Country: U.S. Dir: Walter Salles 2004 Best British Film My Summer of Love Country: U.K. Dir: Paul Pavlikovsky

2005 Best Film Brokeback Mountain Country: U.S. Director Ang Lee 2005 Best British Film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Country: U.K. Dir: Steve Box & Nick Park 2005 Best Foreign Language Film The Beat That My Heart Skipped CountryDir: Jacques Audiard 2006 Best Film The Queen Country: U.K. Director Stephen Frears 2006 Best British Film The Last King of Scotland Country: U.K. Dir: Kevin Macdonald 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Pan’s Labyrinth CountryDirector Guillermo del Toro 2007 Best Film Atonement Country: U.K. Director Joe Wright 2007 Best British Film This is England Country: U.K. Director Shane Meadows 2007 Best Foreign Language Film The Lives of Others Country Germany Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2008 Best FilmSlumdog MillionaireCountry: U.S. Director Danny Boyle 2008 Best British Film Man On Wire Country: U.K. Director James Marsh 2008 Best Foreign Language Film I've Loved You So Long Country France, Dir: Philippe Claudel 2009 Best FilmThe Hurt LockerCountry: U.S. Director Kathryn Bigelow 2009 Best British Film Fish Tank Country: U.K. Director Andrea Arnold 2009 Best Foreign Language Film A Prophet Country France

2010 Best Film and British Film The King's SpeechCountry: U.K. 2010 Best Foreign Language Film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Country Denmark, Dir: Niels Arden Oplev

My Choices for the top BAFTA winning UK made Films
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
4. Gandhi (1982)
5. A Room with a View (1986)
6. Atonement (2007)
7. A Man for All Seasons (1967)
8. Elizabeth (1998)
9. The Madness of King George (1995)
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Honorable Mention: The Curse of the Were-Rabbitt (2005), animation with voices by Helena Bonham-Carter and Ralph Feinnes Ironically, both Shakespeare in Love and Sense & Sensibility were U.S. productions! Bummer…

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We will review (spoiler-free capsule reviews) and list the greatest films in history, wherever and whenever they were produced.

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Our Top Ranked 1000 Films, all polls, was compiled by taking all film polls we could find, throwing them into a spreadsheet, and gave numeric points in descending order. The result was over 2200 films listed in all, ranked by their relative positions in all the polls combined. This combination of both critics and fans polls should give film fans the most objective list of how films are perceived by the total film community, not just a small group of fans.

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Go ahead, make my millenium! - Beetlejuice

I have nothing, I am a river to my people! - Lawrence of Arabia

Hey, senor, how much for the leetul girl? How much for the women? - The Blues Brothers

It's a girl and a midget, 'gidget', get it? - Gidget

I've worked in the private sector, they expect results. - Ghostbusters

Man, that's one big twinkie! - Ghostbusters

I put the grrr in swinger, baby! - Austin Powers

Badges? We don got to show you no stinkin badges! - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Boredom's the first step on the road to relapse - Clerks II

I ain't 'people'! I am a.. 'a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament' - Singin' in the RainIf we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'. - Singin' in the Rain (both from Jean Hagen)

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I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore! - Network

Lend all men thine ear, but lend few your tongue - Hamlet

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. - Hamlet

Doubt the the stars are fire; doubt that the moon's above; doubt that the truth's a liar; but never doubt my love - Hamlet

I picked a helluva week to give up _____ - Airplane!

You can always pay half the poor to kill the other half. - Boss Tweed, Gangs of New York

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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night - All About Eve

You can still dish it out, but you just can't take it anymore - Little Caesar